Don Lattin

Changing Our Minds

Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Changing Our Minds tells you everything that you ought to know about the multi-faceted paradigm of psychedelic research and spiritual practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Synergetic Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780907791669
• ISBN-10: 0907791662
• Artikelnr.: 46765640

Autorenporträt

Don Lattin is an award-winning author and journalist. His five previously published books include The Harvard Psychedelic Club, a national bestseller that was awarded the California Book Award, Silver Medal, for nonfiction. His feature articles have been published in dozens of leading magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, where Lattin worked as a staff writer for twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
 
CHAPTER ONE — WOUNDED WARRIOR
How two therapists used MDMA to help an emotionally destroyed veteran of
the war in Iraq. Features Nigel McCourry and Michael and Annie Mithoefer.
 
CHAPTER TWO — CHEMISTRY
Examines the rise and fall of above-ground psychedelic-assisted
psychotherapy. Features Sasha and Ann Shulgin, Leo Zeff and George Greer.
 
CHAPTER THREE — SPIRITUS CONTRA SPIRITUM
Can the use of drugs like MDMA and psilocybin free people from addiction to
other drugs like alcohol and nicotine and heroin. Features researchers
Michael Bogenschutz and Matthew Johnson, and two of their research
subjects: recovering alcoholic Carroll Carlson and former nicotine addict
Gordon McGlothlin.
 
CHAPTER FOUR — PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY
How psychedelic drug research is helping us understand the nature of
religious experience, and how other consciousness explorers have begun
experimenting with microdosing. Features researchers Bob Jesse, Bill
Richards, Roland Griffiths and Rick Strassman, along with research subjects
Stephen Warres, Lila Diaboha and the Rev. Mike Young.
 
CHAPTER FIVE — SCIENCE OF MIND
How does the rapidly developing field of cognitive neuroscience explain the
mysteries of psychedelic spirituality? Features Swiss researchers Franz
Vollenweider and Katrin Preller, Amanda Feilding of the British based
Beckley Foundation, and Dieter Hagenbach, the biographer of Albert Hofmann.
 
CHAPTER SIX — DYING WITH CONSCIOUSNESS
One of the nation’s leading clinical trials uses psilocybin-assisted
psychotherapy to treat the anxiety and depression that can accompany the
diagnosis of a life-threatening ill- ness. Features therapists Mary
Cosimano, Anthony Bossis and Stephen Ross, along with donor/therapist T.
Cody Swift and cancer patients Judith Goedeke and Richard Cone.
 
CHAPTER SEVEN — PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE
Rick Doblin, the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) hopes to begin the new era by cornering the
market on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Dave Nichols, the veteran
psychedelic chemist and president of the Heffter Research Institute, has
more modest goals for the psilocybin research his organization is
sponsoring. Also, features donor/filmmaker Robert Barnhart.
 
CHAPTER EIGHT — MDMA ON THE MOUNTAINTOP
Andy Gold, an attorney with cancer, and John Saul, a yacht broker with an
equally terrifying disease, sat together on “the tripping couch” of the
cozy psychedelic psychotherapy center, talking about life, death, and
Ecstasy. An in-depth look at one study conducted by researchers Phil
Wolfson and Julane Andries, and two other volunteer subjects, Nikki Dohn
and Wendy Donner.
 
CHAPTER NINE — FALSE STARTS AND DASHED HOPES
Features a critique of the medical model and the current research strategy
through pro- files of psychedelic veterans Ralph Metzner and Richard
Yensen, who admit they and their brethren made their own share of mistakes
along the way.
 
CHAPTER TEN — MINDSETS AND MINEFIELDS
Charles Grob and Alicia Danforth at UCLA talk about their work with MDMA
and young adults with autism—and their fears about the wrong people getting
into this emerging field.
 
CHAPTER ELEVEN — VINE OF THE SOUL
First of two ayahuasca chapters begins with the story of Kyle Nolan, a
teenager who died during a vision quest offered by an unscrupulous shaman.
Features Dennis McKenna and Kathleen Harrison, along with researcher
Jessica Nielson and a U.S. Marine vet who went to Peru to heal his Gulf War
trauma.
 
CHAPTER TWELVE — INTO THE JUNGLE
An account of the author’s ayahuasca adventures in Brazil and the wilds of
Northern California. Includes a profile of Hawaiian couple who have taken
ayahuasca in a myriad of ways.
 
CHAPTER THIRTEEN — IBOGAINE AT THE CROSSROADS
A psychedelic center in Mexico illustrates how U.S. drug policies force
some North Americans to seek addiction therapy and spiritual healing south
of the border. Features clinic founder Martin Polanco, nurse Paige Guion
and two heroin addicts, Collin and Carson.
 
CONCLUSION — BACK TO THE FUTURE
Looking into the past and future with Stanislav Grof, James Fadiman, and
the mysterious Captain Al Hubbard.
 
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX